A grand epic contained in only 2 hours. I love it!
The beauty
The movie manages to capture an incredible rawness; the character development and emotions can be felt to the bone. It shows gorgeous landscapes and made me actually SMELL the outdoors while Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman were riding through the wheat-fields, those green pastures and the rain pouring down.
The story also makes this movie. Though it seemed like it is trying for realism, a less than believable shoot-out in a saloon more or less breaks that down. However, it is an undeniably solid story, with edges at the right moments.
A shout-out needs to be done for the lighting in this movie. It is pivotal in changing a lot of scenes from good to fantastic. Well done Clint!
And oh yeah, the final scene might be one of the most bad-ass scenes in all of movie history.
Westerns
The time and place offer a really nice environment for great movies. I still feel some sort of bias towards westerns as being cliché, boring, far too long and bland. The opposite has been true for my experiences over the last years. Most notably, the 'modern' westerns True Grit and Django Unchained were great films.
I should look into the older ones again, I'm hoping the same grandeur as Unforgiven.
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